Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Horkelia brownii Rydberg, sp. nov
Perennial, with a short caudex; stems several, about 3 dm. high, branched, more or less villous with short hairs and glandular ; stipules lanceolate, toothed ; basal leaves 5-10 cm. long, with 7-9 pairs of leaflets, which are cuneate, 5-12 mm. long, densely shortvillous and clef t or incised at the end, with lanceolate or oblong teeth ; stem-leaves smaller, with 2-3 pairs of narrower leaflets ; cyme rather open ; hypanthium cupulate, in fruit 3 mm. high, glandular-villous ; bractlets linear, 1 mm., or in fruit 2 mm. long; sepals lanceolate, acute, 1.5 mm., in fruit 3 mm. long; petals white, broadly cuneate, about 2 mm. long; filaments broadly subulate.
Type collected on the south side of Mt. Shasta, Siskiyou County, California, in 1897, H. E. Brown 530 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Card.).
Distribution: Type locality and vicinity.
- bibliographic citation
- Frederick Vernon Coville, Nathaniel Lord Britton, Henry Allan Gleason, John Kunkel Small, Charles Louis Pollard, Per Axel Rydberg. 1908. GROSSULARIACEAE, PLATANACEAE, CROSSOSOMATACEAE, CONNARACEAE, CALYCANTHACEAE, and ROSACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 22(3). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
